Technology Operations Director

Resources Legacy Fund builds the architecture behind lasting environmental progress. From climate resilience to land and water conservation to community well-being, we help visionary ideas take shape—offering the steady support and strategic know-how to turn complex challenges into collective victories.

We deliver transformative outcomes for our planet and its people through trusted partnerships and creative campaigns. Rooted in California and expanding across Western North America and beyond, we have a 25-year track record of supporting initiatives at every scale. We also host fiscally sponsored projects that reach across the globe, reinforcing the efforts of change makers worldwide.

Addressing three interconnected crises — climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental injustice — requires creativity, collaboration, and fast reflexes. With deep operational expertise and the confidence of donors and partners, we enable lasting solutions to rise.

The Technology Operations Director is responsible for ensuring RLF, FBF, and SAF have the technology, operations, and systems needed to support their missions.

Reporting to the Chief of Staff and Operations and serving as a member of the leadership team, the Technology Operations Director provides strategic leadership over information technology and cybersecurity, with a particular focus on building a vision for and moving large-scale technology and systems projects from concept to completion. The Director serves as a trusted advisor to the organization and its fiscally sponsored projects, bringing an operational and technology lens to organizational decision-making.

They balance innovation, flexibility, and speed with security, discipline, and care, helping RLF grow and deliver complex grantmaking and fiscal sponsorship services, support a “remote-first” staff, and achieve programmatic outcomes.

This is a full-time, exempt position that can be performed remotely within the U.S. Travel is required quarterly for meetings, conferences, and staff retreats.

• Serve as the organization’s lead on major technology and systems initiatives.
• Develop and align long‑term technology and operational goals and projects with organizational objectives and strategy; build the roadmaps, timelines, and change‑management plans needed to deliver them.
• Serve as a cross‑functional partner to other directors and fiscally sponsored project staff in selecting and utilizing tech platforms.
• Manage technology to support evolving business needs; maintain knowledge of emerging trends and tools to enhance productivity.
• Identify new operational system needs, including systems and processes to support connectivity in a remote‑first workplace.
• Manage information technology contractors and support services.
• Oversee CRM/database (Salesforce) design, maintenance, and management, in partnership with the Director of Grants Management and the Director of Development.
• Advance the technological fluency of staff.

• Devise security policies, procedures, hardware, and software solutions to mitigate cybersecurity and other enterprise risks.
• Drive data privacy compliance and business continuity/disaster recovery planning.
• Advise organizational leadership on technology strategy, operational risk, and resource allocation.
• In compliance with RLF policies and procedures, perform technological tasks necessary for the protection of data.

• Oversee staff managing the RLF satellite office in Sacramento and approximately five additional leases.
• Oversee staff managing co‑working locations.
• Play a supportive role on staff retreats and other in‑person connections.
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